Zitkala-Ša
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Zitkala-Ša, also Zitkála-Šá, was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. She was also known by her anglicized and married name, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
Zitkala-Ša in 1898, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Zitkala-Ša with her violin in 1898
Zitkala-Ša, 1898, by Joseph Keiley
Zitkala-Ša, c. 1898, by Gertrude Käsebier
Carlos Montezuma
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Carlos Montezuma or Wassaja was a Yavapai-Apache Native American physician, activist, and founding member of the Society of American Indians. His birth name, Wassaja, means "Signaling" or "Beckoning"
Zitkala-Ša
…traditional Sioux stories to publish in Old Indian Legends, commissioned by the Boston publisher Ginn and Company. In early 1901, she was engaged to Carlos Montezuma, a Yavapi (Mohave-Apache) doctor and Indigenous activist. Her letters to Montezuma verify that the Carlisle school and its president and founder were…
Montezuma during his career as Native American rights activist
Wassaja magazine. April 1916.
The grave of Dr. Carlos Montezuma in "Ba Dah Mod Jo" Cemetery.